(2012/10/24) Abuses of power (Religion)
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🗓️ 24 October 2012
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Edition #656
Abuses of power
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: If you want to abuse kids, get ordained first - Dan Savage - Air Date 9-11-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: The Pope song - Tim Minchin
Ch. 4: Act 2: Right to Pray Law Allows Creationists to Skip Science Class in Missouri - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-15-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: You're wrong - NOFX
Ch. 6: Act 3: Evolution Is A Lie From Hell! (Republican Rep. Paul Broun) - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-09-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) - They Might Be Giants
Ch. 8: Act 4: Hell is other people - Greg Proops
Ch. 9: Song 4: Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle
Ch. 10: Act 5: Republican Judge Denies Transgender Name Change Based on Bible - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 09-28-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Ch. 12: Act 6: Billy Graham: Mormonism No Longer a Cult? - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-15-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: God? - The Dodos
Ch. 14: Act 7: Atheists, Secularism Are The Enemy - Rick Perry - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-22-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: I ain't afraid - Robin Roberts
Ch. 16: Act 8: Megachurch Pastor Endorses Mitt Romney, Should Lose Tax-Exemption - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-10-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Only if - Enya
Ch. 18: Act 9: Why does the church have the right to tell you how and when to die? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 10-08-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Crucify - Tori Amos
Ch. 20: Act 10: God Worried Apocalypse May Not Live Up To Expectations - The Onion
Ch. 21: Song 10: Sorrow - Bad Religion
Ch. 22: Act 11: Beat Your Wife! says Pat Robertson - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-11-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Natural Blues - Moby
Ch. 24: Act 12: 14-Year-Old Gunned Down by Taliban Malala Yousafzai-YoungTurks-10-9-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.7 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft podcast with Cubsiday from Dan Savage, the |
| 0:12.8 | Majority Report, The Young Turks, Greg Proops, The David Pakman Show, The Tom Hartman |
| 0:17.1 | Program, and The Onion Radio News. |
| 0:19.6 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode discusses some of the more messed |
| 0:23.0 | up parts of religion, and therefore contains a lot of profanity. |
| 0:30.0 | A Roman Catholic bishop last week in Kansas City was found guilty, convicted, and he was |
| 0:36.0 | put on trial for failing to report suspected child abuse. |
| 0:41.4 | Not only did he fail to report it, this is Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn. |
| 0:46.8 | He covered it up and enabled more children to be abused, because it is cover-up. |
| 0:52.1 | The case began, writes The New York Times, when Reverend Sean Radigan, charismatic parish |
| 0:56.3 | priest, blah, blah, blah, takes a computer in, to have it serviced, and the technician |
| 1:03.0 | immediately went to church officials, because what they found on the laptop, quote, appeared |
| 1:07.0 | to be pornographic photographs of young girls, genitals naked and clothed. |
| 1:11.2 | Father Radigan attempted suicide, survived, was sent for treatment, and Bishop Finn reassigned |
| 1:16.5 | him to live in a convent, and ordered him very sternly to stay away from |
| 1:22.0 | children, but Father Radigan writes The New York Times continued to attend church events |
| 1:26.5 | and to take nude pictures of girls for five more months, until church officials reported |
| 1:31.2 | him in 2011 without Bishop Finn's approval. |
| 1:36.1 | The other church officials went behind the bishops back to the police, while the bishop was |
| 1:40.7 | trying to protect this motherfucker, and enabled him to abuse and traumatize more children. |
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